Gingered Sweet and Soy Sauce

I first tasted this recipe when my mother-in-law cooked it for dinner on the night my husband introduced me to his family as his girlfriend. That moment, I made an oath to replicate the recipe. After a number of versions, I finally got the motivation and measuring spoons to standardize.

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Ingredients

• soy sauce, 1 tbsp

• mirin, 1 1/2 tbsp

• ginger, 1/4 tsp (grated)

• sugar, 1/2 tbsp

• black pepper

• water, 3 tbsp

• cornstarch, 1/2 tsp

Procedure

1. Mix the first 5 ingredients on a small pan, then put it over low heat.

2. On a bowl, mix water and cornstarch, then pour it into the pan just before the sauce boils. Let it simmer and just keep on mixing the sauce for a couple of minutes.

3. Remove from heat and pour over tofu!

​Tips and tricks Roll some silken tofu blocks on potato starch then fry. Pour gingered sweet and soy sauce over tofu! Below are some of the dishes I've eaten with this sauce. I haven't written the recipes for these tofu dishes, but I will-- hopefully soon!

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​① Two kinds of mushroom stir-fried and stuffed in tofu rolled in potato starch then fried. Sauce poured over the stuffing. ② Red and yellow paprika stir-fried with eggplant and shimeji mushroom, stuffed into fried silken tofu then poured with gingered sweet and soy sauce. ③ Mashed silken tofu mixed with chopped shiitake mushroom, formed into balls then fried. Topped with grated radish and gingered sweet and soy sauce.

​Here are some fried dishes my mother-in-law cooked for me and served with gingered sweet and soy sauce! ④ Mashed soy beans sandwiched between two eggplant halves then dipped in potato starch before frying. ⑤ Fried tofu and gingered sweet and soy sauce-- but it looks like my mother in law forgot to cook grated ginger with the sauce so she creatively topped the whole dish with grated ginger instead. It was very delicious!